The Big Squeeze is now on the Khazarian Mafia.....

                                                                              By Preston James, Ph.D on January 17, 2016                                                        

We know that the Khazarian Mafia (KM) is now a sinking ship. Numerous nations around the World have now ganged up on it. It is cornered and it is losing power by the day. Expect increased surveillance and harassment by local police who take orders from Homeland Security and receive their ridiculous conjured up Domestic Terror Watch Lists. How much real power does the KM have left and for how long can it hold out? Is the KM still powerful enough to start another major war in the Mideast, or even a nuclear WW3 to serve as a covering event for their impending loss of World hegemony?

There are recent reports from China that the Chinese Government has ordered that its international cargo shipping in both the Pacific and the Atlantic be restricted.

One source with connections to mainland Chinese sources has verified this claim that China has given an ultimatum that there will be a big reduction in their cargo ships  unloading any products until the USG begins to honor the Secret Reset Agreement they entered into in 2013 during G-20 meetings.

The Baltic Dry Index is way down, less than half of what it was at its peak.

As best we can determine before Chinese cargo shipping is increased, China is demanding that their Renminbi be included in a basket of currencies.

And we know that the Renminbi will then be backed by Gold and this basket  of currencies will replace the current exclusiveness of the US Petro Dollar which functions as the World’s Reserve Currency.

This same source has claimed that the Japanese Government has just agreed to be part of the Chinese created Asian Infrastructure Investment bank (AIIB). If these reports are accurate then this means that Khazarian Mafia (KM) is being squeezed economically.

For the G-20 nations, especially the USA to honor this Secret Reset Agreement made in 2013 the Khazarian Mafia (KM) must be removed from its position controlling the World Central Banking.

It also apparently requires the acceptance of the Chinese Renminbi based on Gold and Silver as a part of an international basket of currencies and the removal of the US Petro Dollar as the World’s Reserve Currency.

Looks like the Khazarian Mafia (KM) is now being squeezed from many directions. And it is rapidly losing control which makes it desperate.

When the World’s largest Organized Crime Syndicate the KM feels cornered one would expect that it would become desperate to re-establish control and take even more drastic actions that it has in the past, unless too much force is arrayed against them from more than one enemy.

And now for the first time numerous enemies have arisen against the KM. And two of them are quite powerful.

The first and most powerful enemy appears to be the Russian Federation.

   Putin and the Russian Federation have now completely checkmated the Khazarian Mafia (KM) both in the Ukraine and in Syria and is now annihilating ISIS by deployment of its superior air power.

The second most powerful appears to be the American People, a very well armed sleeping giant that is now rapidly awaking.

This new exigent power of the American Masses is due to the Alternative Media of the Internet. The Internet has provided incredible speed  and the fact that so many Americans are finally figuring out everything out of our elected Politicians’ mouths via the CMMM is their propaganda, big lies and false-narratives.

  And the recent dire economy, and massive unemployment since 2008 brought about by all these traitorous Free Trade Agreements and two illegal, unConstitutional “Wall Street Bailouts” have created a spontaneously emerging populism in the American Masses.

This massive populism is not only unprecedented but it is now accompanied by a rising anger towards the DC “doofus” career politicians and this new populism is increasingly powerful.

The KM has deployed false-flag attacks all around the World and in America using Cutouts. Some were mass-shootings in gun-free zones hyped in the Controlled Major Mass Media (CMMM), and others were major bombings like at the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995 or the World Trade Center in NYC on 9-11-01.

The purpose is always to justify more power to central government in order to help the KM protect itself and its Evil Agenda.

But now that the KM is being squeezed from all sides we might see increased harassment of investigative journalists, known truth tellers and dissidents that run counter to the KM’s propaganda, big lies and false-narratives they dispense through their CMMM?

Might we start seeing mysterious and increasingly frequent disappearances like what occurred in the South American Death Squads? After all these Death Squads were all trained by the US Military and the CIA inside the USA, and these schools for torture and murder are still active. And recently Chicago was caught running a black site for DHS to disappear Targeted Individuals to. Other cities have these too. And the Pentagon and the CIA still run the Black Prison sites in East European nations and have black prison ships which are still active. Check this for more information.

We should expect the DHS to put out increasingly negative smear reports to the local Police Departments creating increased fear of known truth tellers, dissidents, patriots and gun owners who have been illegally placed on Domestic terror Watch lists with instructions to begin increased surveillance and harassment against them?

  We now know for certain that the KM’s actions in the past in America have included the Bombing of the Murrah Building, first attempted bombing of the NYC Twin towers  by the FBI setting up and supplying the Blind Sheikh which was actually a test to establish needs for the devices the KM used in Twin Towers attack on 9-11-01. So this World’s largest organized Crime Syndicate the KM is truly capable of untold evil against the American people as well as the whole World as long as it is allowed to exist and occupy and parasitize the USG for its own purposes.

Inside America the KM has controlled the Alphabets including the FBI, its main cover up agency and entrapment/setup agency and the BATF as well as the CIA and they have always done a lot of the KM’s illegal dirty work..

And of course after the KM attacked America on 9-11-01 to create a New Pearl Harbor event, they were now in a position to establish Homeland Security (DHS) the foundation of the long planned American Police State.

This plan to establish DHS was already written and ready to push through Congress awaiting a major catalytic event such as the major terrorist attack of 9-11-01 which was run by the KM and its stateside assets deep inside the Administration and the Pentagon.

The attack on America of 9-11-01 was designed to consolidate all American Law Enforcement under one central command directly controlled by the KM a known foreign based power and justify becoming a nation based on pre-emptive wars of aggression.

The secret agenda of DHS is to transform America into a total surveillance society, a Police State rivaling East Germany under the Stasi. That is why Marcus Wolfe (former head of the Stasi) was hired as a consultant to set up DHS two years before he mysteriously died.

The ultimate end game here is for the KM to use DHS to transform America into GAZA II, the World’s largest open-air prison camp and to make Americans the New Palestinians. This is all part of the “Greater Israel Plan” which is no longer theory but established fact. And the “Greater Israel Plan” is the cover story used by the KM’s top leadership (aka the “Select Few”) to use its Cutouts and main action agent the American-Israeli “Israeli-first” Dual Citizen Traitors and the Likudists in Israel to do their dirty work.

The American Controlled Major Mass Media (CMMM) has been losing it credibility for years and  it popularity is at an all time low.

Since the CMMM is the main mouthpiece and propaganda/ mind-kontrol agent for the KM, its demise poses a big loss of power for the KM. And we now know for certain its demise is being engendered by the increasing popularity of the Alternative News of the Internet.

The KM is now cornered and you can bet that Homeland Security (DHS) is busy at work creating smear reports at their fusion centers to send to local police with the instructions to increase the harassment of suspected domestic terrorists.

And who are their listed domestic terrorists? Gun owners, Ron Paul supporters, Veterans, libertarians, Christians, Islamics, Patriots, anti-war activists, dissidents and alternative media reporters and journalists.

Increased harassment and abuse of phony domestic terror watch lists.

Increased harassment by local police, alphabets as ordered by DHS, according to their whacked out “watch lists” that include almost everyone but the real domestic terrorists who are the KM leaders and the top officials of DHS whose job is to terrorize Americans into subservience and compliance and take away all our Constitutional Rights.

There were confidential domestic terror “Watch Lists” lists prepared by Janet Napolitano while she was head of DHS which were leaked and published on the Internet, so we know for certain. Even though she resigned her position at DHS, she is being sued by subordinate men for sexual harassment and for moving their office into the men’s lavatory among other things.

A couple of night ago while driving at night in the early evening I was pulled over and needlessly rousted by a local police Officer who claimed I crossed over the line three times on a stretch of road with no other traffic close by. This fine very young lady police officer tailed me for a couple miles and then pulled me over. I don’t drink, use drugs, speed or drive carelessly nor did I did not cross over any lines.

After the usual license and insurance check the Officer let me go with no ticket. But she ask me a question about something irrelevant that could she have only known about from information gained by a local stingray tap or from the local DHS Fusion Center. Not very professional. She was rousting me and it was a message that I received and am now responding to.

A Deal with the Devil at Langely?

In this same Department some years back the prior Police Chief was provided a free trip to Langley for a special meeting. During that meeting he was asked by the CIA to sign a secret Jurisdictional Agreement on behalf of his Department in which he agreed to submit jurisdiction on any case to the Feds that they requested.

  Major amounts of military grade equipment was to be provided in exchange including two armored cars, grenade launchers, full-auto real assault rifles and machine guns, body armor, bullet proof barriers and lots of military grade ammo. The Chief was an honorable man with integrity and refused to sign the agreement. Did he developed a strange neurological condition soon after that and have to resign?

Did the CIA keep secretly working with a couple corrupt officers to distribute illegal drugs to high school kids from “DEA controlled deliveries” a local smaller “feeder airport” through a sea food import “proprietary”, with a local drug task force (with special license plates to identify each other) either looking the other way or involved. Betcha this hasn’t stopped.

The department got a new Chief and now has the equipment offered. You can be sure that this secret transaction has already been successfully made in almost every large Urban Police Department. So far a significant number of Sheriff’s offices have refused. The County Sheriff is the supreme law enforcement officer in any county and has authority even over the Feds.

Be clear about this, these deals with the Devil at Langley to get jurisdiction over your local police are all driven by the KM Kingpins who are Neo-Bolsheviks who plan to terrorize us, tyrannize us, completely asset strip us and and then mass-murder us.

For now until the KM’s back is broken, expect increased surveillance and harassment by local police if you are in one of the categories on their watch lists (which is about half of the American people).

This is the kind of surveillance and increased harassment Gun owners, Ron Paul supporters, Veterans, libertarians, Christians, Islamics, Patriots, anti-war activists, dissidents and alternative media reporters and journalists can expect more of as the KM’s power is choked off by the whole World that is now ganging up on it.

DHS is here to militarize the American Police and turn America into a Neo-Bolshevik Stasi-style Police State and transform it into GAZA II with all Americans the New Palestinians. Once that is accomplished the KM plans to treat Americans the same way Bolsheviks treated innocent Russian civilians. It raped, tortured and mass murdered 100 million of them. The KM is Neo-Bolshevik and its top Policy-Makers are from the same age old bloodlines. They have recorded their intentions in stone at the Georgia Guidestones so we know this for certain.

  But here’s the deal. America is not Russia in 1917 and is the most armed up populace in the World. Despite all the recent efforts of the KM to force our so-called “elected politicians” to disarm Americas, it will never happen. Americans have been buying guns at an increasing rate ever since the KM deployed all these mass-shootings in gun free zones and major efforts to grab our guns began in earnest.

And many Americans are starting to catch on to the fact that some of these mass-shootings in gun-free zones are real with real dead victims while others like Sandy Hook are faked, but that all are engineered, staged false-flag attacks on the Second Amendment. This has kept folks confused up until now but thanks to the efforts of hundreds of tireless researchers the truth is now being published all  over the Internet and is now readily available for all.

Conclusion:

One thing is certain.  The KM is now cornered and its hegemony is rapidly being eroded. It’s false-flag efforts to disarm Americans and any other efforts to do so will fail. The KM is now doomed by the whole World which is building massive financial firewalls against it and ganging-up on it. The KM is being deconstructed bit by bit and you can expect they will have a hard landing and because they are such two-faced psychopaths they will keep lying until the end.

Undoubtedly the Big Squeeze is now on the Khazarian Mafia (KM), they are cornered and increasingly desperate and their private Fiat pernicious usury debt-based counterfeit money system has become a Ponzi scheme nearing collapse.

And the BRICS System is just one of many new financial firewalls being built up against the KM’s finacial hegemony which is now destined to fail.

There are certain factions in the Pentagon and American Intel which have so far been able to place strong limits on what the KM can do to retaliate and they have been unable to start a nuclear WW3 with Russia as intended.

Efforts by Senator John McCain and other Traitors like the retired General commanding ISIS have also failed.

And all their recent efforts to attack Russia through Crimea and to destroy Syria and Iran have also failed because of the new military power and technological supremacy of the Russian Federation under the dynamic leadership pf President Putin.

If these reports that China is severely restricting their container shipping companies until the Khazarian Mafia (KM) honors the Secret Reset Agreement this is indeed a very interesting development. And if true it suggests that all the hype in the CMMM that China’s economy is worse than ours is likely exaggerated.

A better guess is that China has prepared for this for quite a while and is no longer so dependent on American sales anymore, perhaps already having established some lucrative markets with Russia, South America, Malaysia and other trading partners. Is this part of a major economic trap for the Khazarian Mafia and its US Petro Dollar? In time we shall find out and it make not take too long.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/author/jim/ 

 

NOW FOSTER PARENTS CAN'T HAVE GUNS 

Campaign already has aimed at veterans & Social Security recipients

WND
Bob Unruh
Jan 16 2016 


An aggressive anti-gun campaign that already has named veterans and recipients of Social Security benefits as targets apparently is being expanded to include foster parents.  And it’s already drawn a lawsuit.

The Second Amendment Foundation confirmed a lawsuit has been filed against the Oklahoma Department of Human Services for two residents “whose civil rights have been deprived under color of law.”

The suit explains that the state agency’s rules prevent citizens from serving as foster parents while “legally possessing functional firearms for personal protection.”

“This mandate for foster parents is not just restrictive, it’s ridiculous,” said Alan Gottlieb, founder of the the Second Amendment Foundation. “Why should a foster parent be stripped of his or her right to self-defense, or their ability to defend their foster child, simply to appease some bureaucrat’s anti-gun philosophy?”

He continued: “We’re in a new era, when people not only must be concerned with violent crime, but also acts of urban terrorism. How would it look for Oklahoma if foster children came to some harm because OKDHS regulations disarmed their foster parents?

“We’re asking for an injunction against this requirement because it puts foster families at serious risk while denying parents of their constitutional rights.”

The case comes on behalf of Stephen and Krista Pursley of Moore, Oklahoma, who have served as foster parents to nearly three-dozen children.  For at least two years, however, the state agency has issued a form to prospective foster and adoptive parents titled “Weapon Safety Agreement for Foster or Adoptive Family,” which “prevents the carrying of firearms in the child’s presence ‘unless the employment of foster/adoptive applicant or parent requires when on-duty.'”

An attorney working with the plaintiffs said it’s not only unfair but unconstitutional “that those persons who are providing a better life and environment for children, through the state’s DHS foster care and adoption process, would have to give up the fundamental rights of self-defense and defense of family in order to do so.”

A spokeswoman for the state agency, Sheree Powell, told the AP that the goal is “reasonable safety measures.  Agency leadership has, in fact, been diligently working in recent weeks to review and, if necessary, revise its foster care weapons policy in order to address the interests of foster parents who are appropriately permitted to possess firearms,” Powell said. “Any revisions to agency policy, however, will always make the safety of children its first and foremost priority."

The couple has adopted one foster child and is in the process of adopting a second. Another foster child lives in the couple’s home.  Stephen Pursley has been licensed to carry a concealed weapon for more than a decade.

The Los Angeles Times reported the Obama administration was pushing to ban Social Security beneficiaries from owning guns if they “lack the mental capacity to manage their own affairs."  That is a virtual copy of a Veterans Administration plan, as WND has reported, being used against military veterans by the Obama administration. 

Michael Connelly of the United States Justice Foundation has been working on the VA case since several veterans contacted him to say they had been determined incompetent without a hearing and wanted to fight back.

According to the Social Security plan, the federal benefit recipients would be told they are incompetent and can no longer have weapons. Their names would be added to the National Instant Criminal Background Check system, which is used by governments to keep weapons out of the hands of felons, drug addicts, illegal aliens and others.

An estimated 4.2 million adults get Social Security payments that are managed by “representative payees.”
The Times said the move is part of an effort by the Obama administration after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, to strengthen gun control.

After Congress shot down virtually every legislative change Obama wanted, the president began to makes changes through rewriting rules and definitions.  In recent weeks he’s ramped up his plans once again to do things by executive order, or administratively, that he cannot get Congress to agree to.

The National Rifle Association has been unhappy with the Obama administration’s gun-control maneuvers. "If the Obama administration attempts to deny millions of law-abiding citizens their constitutional rights by executive fiat, the NRA stands ready to pursue all available avenues to stop them in their tracks,” the organization said at the time.

Connelly had told WND that if the government is successful in its restrictions on Social Security recipients, there will be other targets soon.  “They could go after student loan recipients. What about people getting food stamps? Medicaid? Potentially anybody working for any government contractor,” he warned.  He said he’s been warning on on his blog since earlier this year that the Social Security move was coming.  He said the government was using veterans “as guinea pigs to develop methods that can be used to steal their constitutional rights. Veterans get the letter from the VA telling them that because of physical or mental disabilities they are going to be declared incompetent to handle their own financial affairs, and the VA will appoint a fiduciary for them. The veterans are given 60 days to prove they are competent, which is a direct violation of the due process clause of the Constitution that requires the burden of proof be on the government,” he wrote.

“In none of the cases that we know of has there been an adjudication process with a hearing before a judge or an administrative judge. Nor have the veterans in most cases been examined by a psychiatrist, psychologist or even an MD,” he continued. “[Then Attorney General] Eric Holder decided that anyone who works for the VA can declare veterans incompetent for any reason including having their bills paid automatically out of their bank accounts.”

Lately, he said, some veterans “have never gotten any letter or official notification from the VA.  They find out they are on the NICS list when they try to purchase a firearm. Often they can’t even find out why they are on the list.”

WND broke the story that the Obama administration insisted it was routine for officials to send out letters informing veterans that an unidentified “report” indicated they may be declared incompetent and consequently stripped of their Second Amendment rights.

It’s the same administration that in 2009 warned that “returning veterans possess combat skills and experience that are attractive to rightwing extremists.”
The 2009 report from the Department of Homeland Security was called “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.” 

It also said Obama’s governmental managers were “concerned that rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to boost their violent capabilities.”

http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/now-foster-parents-cant-have-guns/

Black Lives Matter… What’s REALLY Going On

The Mask Just Got Torn Off Black Lives Matter… What’s REALLY Going On Is                       Disturbing

"...generously supported by a universe of wealthy 'foundations'."

F. Peter Brown 

January 15, 2016 at 11:48am

Black Lives Matter (BLM) was created as a movement when the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag was created in 2013 in response to the George Zimmerman acquittal in the Trayvon Martin case.

Now James Simpson, an investigate journalist, has written a compelling piece for Accuracy in Media exposing the depth of connection between BLM and radical socialist and communist groups.

“This report examines in detail for the first time how communist groups have manipulated the cause of Black Lives Matter, and how money from liberal foundations has made it all possible,” Simpson writes.

After the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag was created, radical-left activists Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opel Tometi took credit for the slogan and hastag. They all work for front groups of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), one of the four largest radical-left organizations in the country.

According to Simpson, “FRSO is a hereditary descendant of the New Communist Movement, which was inspired by Mao and the many communist revolutions throughout the world in the 1960s and 1970s.”

He writes that FRSO membership is “disproportionately represented by blacks, gays, and women, and self-consciously emphasizes those issues.”

Patrisse Cullors, a self-described “working class, queer, black woman,” led a chant at a 2015 Netroots Nation conference which stated: “If I die in police custody, burn everything down… rise the f–k up! That is the only way motherf–kers like you will listen!”

Simpson writes that “FRSO/BLM organizations are generously supported by a universe of wealthy foundations.”

Famous leftist billionaire George Soros has “provided over $30 million in seed money to groups affiliated with #BlackLivesMatter,” according to Red State.


Simpson concludes his article stating most supporters of BLM are unaware of the movement’s true mission. 

“Many members of the black community would be shocked to learn that the intellectual godfathers of this movement are mostly white Communists, ‘queers,’ and leftist Democrats, intent on making blacks into cannon fodder for the revolution,” he says.

http://www.westernjournalism.com/the-mask-just-got-torn-off-black-lives-matter-whats-really-going-on-is-disturbing/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=ConservativeTribuneEmail&utm_campaign=DailyBest&utm_content=2016-01-17  

Video Showing 140 Lies Obama Told Over His 8 SOTU Addresses

OBAMA HATER CREATES BRUTAL VIDEO SHOWING 140 LIES OBAMA TOLD OVER HIS 8 SOTU ADDRESSES


Ben Marquis
January 14, 2016 at 7:06 am


Obama delivered his final State of the Union address on Tuesday evening Jan 12 2016, and once again he played fast and loose with the truth in a number of statements. Of course, this is nothing new, as Obama has routinely used his SOTU speeches to spread a whole host of lies and half-truths.

Thankfully, somebody took the time to compile a video showing 140 different untruths told by the Obama in his previous SOTU addresses. What follows are just a handful of his biggest lies.

In his 2009 address, Obama famously declared, “If your family makes less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime."

In 2010, while touting his Obamacare health care reforms, Obama proclaimed, “Our approach would preserve the right of Americans who have insurance to keep their doctor and their plan. It would reduce costs and premiums for millions of families and businesses."  In that same speech, Obama also said, “We will continue to go through the budget, line by line, to eliminate programs that we can’t afford and don’t work."

The 2011 speech was populated with quite a few lies, including “When we find rules that put an unnecessary burden on businesses, we will fix them,” and, “The health insurance law we passed last year will slow these rising costs."

2012 included such whoppers as “I’m directing my administration to open more than 75 percent of our potential offshore oil and gas resources,” and, “I’ve ordered every federal agency to eliminate rules that don’t make sense."

In the 2013 speech, Obama proudly yet prematurely proclaimed, “By the end of next year, our war in Afghanistan will be over,” which ironically was followed by the doozy, “Our government shouldn’t make promises we cannot keep — but must keep the promises we’ve already made."

Obama declared in 2014 that “I will act on my own to slash bureaucracy,” along with the laughable, “Let’s do more to help the entrepreneurs and small business owners who create most new jobs in America."

2015’s speech was also chock-full of lies and half- truths, including Obama’s claim regarding his supposed efforts against the Islamic State group in which he said, “We are leading a broad coalition, including Arab nations, to degrade and ultimately destroy this terrorist group.”

However, the biggest lie of them all in 2015 was Obama saying, “I commit to every Republican here tonight that I will not only seek out your ideas, I will seek to work with you to make this country stronger.”

Obama has only a passing acquaintanceship with the truth, as revealed by the many misleading statements and outright lies he has told, just in his State of the Union speeches.

Thankfully, we only have one more year of listening to his lies before we have a different president, hopefully one who has a better relationship with honesty and the truth.

http://conservativetribune.com/140-lies-obama-told/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=ConservativeTribuneEmail&utm_campaign=DailyBest&utm_content=2016-01-17

IF ONLY IT WOULD HAPPEN THAT THIS NATION HAS ITS REAL REPUBLIC GOVERNMENT RESTORED AND UP AND RUNNING (AND NOT ANOTHER FRAUDULENT 'CORPORATION REPUBLIC'  PUT IN PLACE BY THE ATTORNEYS WORKING FOR THE CABAL USING THE REAL REPUBLIC'S DOCUMENTATION) , AND THAT ALL THOSE IN THIS CRIMINAL MAFIA PRETEND 'GOVERNMENT' HAS BEEN ARRESTED, TRIED AND HUNG FOR TREASON. GOD, PLEASE LET IT BE.
 

BLM BURNING RANCHERS AND CATTLE OUT OF THEIR HOMES IN OREGON....

 

BLM destroyed Ranchers homes, burned the cattle alive, and destroyed the grazing summer grass land in Oregon......

 

Hi Folks Popeye here...please watch the below video regarding the BLM burning ranch land, over 80 cattle and several homes including all ranch buildings...Why are these BLM AHOS not in jail...including the judges??

BLM is not a valid government agency it is a private (THUGS)corporation for hire...

In other words we are all being duped.....

WHO is paying the THUGS to do what they are doing??

Better yet who is giving them their orders???

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vkJW9oNNGw&feature=player_detailpage

Pay huge government fee before you can retire !!

CITY SQUEEZES FAMILY IN COURT FOR $8 MILLION TO CLOSE THEIR FAMILY'S BUSINESS !!
 
Lawsuit challenges demand as unconstitutional taking of private property

WND

Jan 16 2016

Bob Unruh

The city of Palo Alto, California, wants a court to dismiss a lawsuit opposing its demand that the family owners of a mobile home park pay some $8 million for permission to close it down!

Lawyers for the park owners say they are just asking for the “courthouse doors [to] remain open for people, like the Jissers, to make their case when the government wrongfully takes their property.”

As WND reported, the Pacific Legal Foundation filed the case on behalf of the owners of the Buena Vista mobile home park. The owners want to close their business, but with a local median housing price of $2.46 million, the city demands that the tenants be compensated so they can find another place to live.

“No one should be forced to carry on a business that they want to close,” said PLF Attorney Larry Salzman in a statement. “The city is treating the Jissers as an ATM to solve a problem they didn’t cause – the lack of affordable housing in Palo Alto. That’s not just wrong, it’s unconstitutional.”

See an explanation of the case:  http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/city-squeezes-family-in-court-for-8m-to-close-business/#ooid=A3eHF5eDqUrY5s6Fdi55pi7OI31lb9CY

Salzman, in a blog post, explained the family's patriarch, Tim Jisser, is retiring and so the family wants out of the business. "The city says the money is needed so that the tenants can get expensive alternative housing in the area; in effect, the city is holding the Jissers uniquely responsible for solving the city's severe housing affordability problem. That's not just wrong, it's unconstitutional."

He said that instead of answering the Jissers' complaint, the city "has done what governments typically do: it's trying to avoid judgment by asking the court to toss out the case.  The city's motion to dismiss doesn't deny that the city is commanding a payment of $8 million, or that it won't grant the Jissers a permit unless they pay it," he said. 'It just says the case shouldn't be heard by a judge yet; or that it's too late to hear it; or that it should be heard by a state judge instead of a federal judge. In short, the city has said anything and everything it can say in an attempted retreat from actually defending what it is in fact doing to the Jissers."

When the case was filed, it alleged violations of the U.S. Constitution's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment limitations on taking private property for public use. It also alleges violation of a California law prohibiting conditions on the closure of mobile home parks that "exceed the reasonable costs of relocation" of a park’s tenants, the claim said.

The family moved to the U.S. in the 1970s and purchased the site in 1986.  Their son, Joe, who manages the site said in a statement released by PLF: "My parents came here as immigrants with nothing and built a successful business. They were pursuing the American dream. But now the city is trampling on the promise of freedom that drew them to this land."  

He said his family "has worked hard for 30 years to provide safe and affordable housing here.  Now we're told by the city that providing that service is not enough, that we have to pay a staggering amount of money just to close our business," he said. "It's not fair for the city to force us to pay our tenants millions of dollars as the price of my parents' retirement."

A statement emailed to WND from the city was attributed to Palo Alto Attorney Molly Stump.  "We are confident that the city followed both state law and the process that is set out in our own municipal ordinance related to the closing of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park," she said. "There is no merit to these claims."

http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/city-squeezes-family-in-court-for-8m-to-close-business/

BREAKING: Obama Was NOT a 'Constitutional Scholar'

BREAKING:  OBAMA WAS NOT A CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR.....
HERE'S WHAT OBAMA REALLY DID AT THE UNIV OF CHICAGO......


Kim Smith
January 15, 2016 at 8:26 am
 
As we’ve come to know more about 'president' Barack Obama, we’ve learned he likes to manipulate the truth, and one truth that he has repeatedly liked to shove in our faces is the fact that he was once a “constitutional scholar” at the University of Chicago. However, The New York Times reported that Obama never did teach constitutional law but a rather focused study of race, rights and gender.

While Obama did cover “due process and equal protection areas of constitutional law,” his most original course covered racism and law. In this course, Obama “improvised” his own textbook to include cases like Brown v. Board of Education, essays by Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Dubois, Malcolm X and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., according to The Times. 

Former students stated Obama was “especially eager” for them to understand the “horrors of the past.” Part of his assignments included a 1919 catalog of lynching victims who endured rape and the cutting off of ears and fingers.  In one class on race, he mocked the way white people talked. “Why are your friends at the housing projects shooting each other?” he asked, according to The Times.

A favorite theme for Obama, according to Salil Mehra, a law professor at Temple University, included the "values andcultural touchstones that Americans share.”  Naturally, liberals were attracted to the classes of this “progressive politician who backed child care subsidies and laws against racial profiling” and who even expressed skepticism in a 1996 about president Bill Clinton’s attempts to “reach across the aisle.”

Interestingly, Obama was known as being enigmatic, often “leaving fellow faculty members guessing about his precise views.”

Some things never change. Obama has always been elusive because if anyone knew exactly how he felt about the prickly issues of race and constitutional rights in particular, he would never have made it as far as he has.  His past reveals a favoritism toward these issues and his executive actions certainly speak louder than his words, which we now know we cannot rely upon. 

Obama is the great manipulator — and apparently he always has been.

http://conservativetribune.com/obama-constitutional-scholar/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=ConservativeTribuneEmail&utm_campaign=DailyBest&utm_content=2016-01-17

Oil Industry Conquered Medicine, Finance and Agriculture

How the Oil Industry Conquered Medicine, Finance and Agriculture

Dr. Mercola  January 16, 2016


"How Big Oil Conquered the World" is a brilliant piece of investigative journalism presented by James Corbett,¹ revealing the immense extent to which the oil industry has shaped and is ruling the world as we know it.

"From farm to pharmaceutical, diesel truck to dinner plate, pipeline to plastic product, it is impossible to think of an area of our modern-day lives that is not affected by the petrochemical industry.
The story of oil is the story of the modern world. And this is the story of those who helped shape that world, and how the oil-igarchy they created is on the verge of monopolizing life itself."

Corbett carefully details the sordid back story of today's "oiligarchy." While most people are well-acquainted with the Rockefeller name, few probably know the true history of the Rockefellers' rise to power.

MUST-SEE DOCUMENTARY: 

How Big Oil Conquered the World

 

Big Oil — An Industry Founded on Treachery and Deceit

As noted by Corbett, certain details of the Big Oil story are well known. Others are more obscure. The story begins in rural New York state in the early 19th century, with William Avery Rockefeller, an authentic "snake oil salesman" going by the fictional name of "Dr. Bill Livingston."

While neither a doctor nor a cancer specialist, Rockefeller, aka "Dr. Livingston," aka "Devil Bill," traveled the country's back roads conning people into buying his "Rock Oil" tonic for cancer — "a useless mixture of laxative and petroleum that had no effect whatsoever," according to Corbett.

William Avery Rockefeller fathered numerous children with three women, and took the name Livingston after being indicted for rape in 1849. One of those children was John D. Rockefeller, who became the world's first billionaire after founding Standard Oil.

As noted by Corbett:

"When he wasn't running away from them or disappearing for years at a time, [William Avery Rockefeller] would teach his children the tricks of his treacherous trade. He once bragged of his parenting technique: 'I cheat my boys every chance I get. I want to make 'em sharp' ...
The world we live in today is the world created in 'Devil' Bill's image. It's a world founded on treachery, deceit, and the naïveté of a public that has never wised up to the parlor tricks that the Rockefellers and their ilk have been using to shape the world for the past century and a half."

The Birth of the Oil Industry

Another character with a similarly dubious background is "Colonel" Edwin Drake, an unemployed railroad conductor who managed to secure himself a job with the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company after running into the founders, George Bissell and James Townsend, at a hotel.

The title "Colonel" was bestowed on him by Bissell and Townsend, who thought it might help him "win the respect of the locals" as he went about the company's business, collecting Seneca oil, which the company distilled into kerosene (lamp oil).

His mission was to collect enough Seneca oil to make the business profitable — a task that turned out to be more difficult than expected, as mere gallons could be collected using the standard collection methods.

Eventually, he tried drilling through the shale bedrock to reach greater reservoirs of oil, and on August 28, 1859 — literally the day he'd used up the last of his funds — the oil began to flow from the ground. And with that, a new industry was born. 
It didn't take long before homes and factories around the world were using lamp oil refined from crude, and prospectors from around the country flocked to Pennsylvania in search of the "black gold."

Among them was John D. Rockefeller, a Cleveland bookkeeper who, according to Corbett, had two ambitions in life: "To make $100,000 and to live to 100 years old." With a $1,000 loan from his father, "Devil Bill," John D. Rockefeller set off to make his fortune.

The Standard Oil Monopoly

After a series of partnerships and mergers over a seven-year period, John D. Rockefeller eventually incorporated Standard Oil of Ohio in 1870. According to the report:

"The next year, he quietly put what he called 'our plan' — his campaign to dominate the volatile oil industry — into devastating effect. Rockefeller knew that the refiner with the lowest transportation cost could bring rivals to their knees.

He entered into a secret alliance with the railroads, called the South Improvement Company. In exchange for large, regular shipments, Rockefeller and his allies secured transport rates far lower than those of their bewildered competitors.

Ida Tarbell, the daughter of an oil man, later remembered how men like her father struggled to make sense of events: 'An uneasy rumor began running up and down the Oil Regions,' she wrote.

'Freight rates were going up. … Moreover … all members of the South Improvement Company — a company unheard of until now — were exempt. … On every lip there was but one word and that was 'conspiracy.'"

By the time he was 40, John D. Rockefeller controlled 90 percent of the global oil refineries. Within another few years (early 1880s), he also controlled 90 percent of the marketing of oil, and one-third of all oil wells. His power and influence cannot be overstated at this point.

He had an international monopoly on what was to become the most important commodity in the world economy.

Following in Rockefeller's footsteps were a handful of other wealthy families, including the Nobels, the Rothschilds, the Dutch Royal family, and millionaire William Knox D'arcy, who was the first to strike oil in Persia.

These early "oil barons" became enormously wealthy. And as billions of people became increasingly dependent on oil for virtually every aspect of life, they gained tremendous power and influence.

However, oil could have been replaced by other resources, were it not for the shrewd manipulation by these early "oiligarchs."

The Death of the Electric Car, and Other Lucky Breaks

The advent of the electric light bulb took a good chunk out of the lamp oil market and temporarily threatened the oil monopoly. But lamp oil was quickly replaced by the need for gasoline to run the two-stroke internal combustion engine, invented by German engineer Karl Benz.

In 1888, Benz Motorwagen became the first commercially available automobile, and with that, the petroleum industry's profits were again secured. But even then their ongoing monopoly was not guaranteed. The first electric car had been built in 1884, and by 1897, electric cars were gaining popularity in London. In the early 20th century, 28 percent of cars sold in the U.S. were also electric. As noted by Corbett:

"The electrics had advantages over the internal combustion engine: they required no gear shifting or hand cranking, and had none of the vibration, smell or noise associated with gasoline-powered cars. Lady Luck intervened again on January 10, 1901, when prospectors struck oil at Spindletop in East Texas.

The gusher blew 100,000 barrels a day and set off the next great oil boom, providing cheap, plentiful oil to the American market and driving down gas prices. It wasn't long before the expensive, low range electric engines were abandoned altogether and big, loud, gas-guzzling engines came to dominate the road ..."

Interestingly, the event that made John D. Rockefeller into the world's first billionaire was supposed to rein in his unbridled power. He'd come under intense scrutiny as his wealth increased and, on May 15, 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court declared Standard Oil a monopoly "in restraint of trade" and ordered its dissolution.

But by dissolving the company into multiple entities, shares of Standard Oil tripled in value, and in a few short years, Rockefeller's worth equaled nearly 2 percent of the total U.S. economy.

"For the oiligarchy, the lesson of the rise and rise of Rockefeller was obvious: the more ruthlessly that monopoly was pursued, the tighter that control was grasped, the greater the lust for power and money, the greater the reward would be in the end. From now on, no invention would derail the oil majors from their quest for total control. No competition would be tolerated. No threat to the oiligarchs would be allowed to rise."

The Continued Squashing of Competition

While the electric car had been successfully eliminated, thereby securing Big Oil profits, another competing resource was on the horizon: alcohol.

Henry Ford designed his Model T automobile to run on either gasoline or alcohol, stating that just about anything that could be fermented could be used for fuel, predicting the future of fuel was wide open to a number of alternatives. However, the oil industry succeeded in eliminating the competition yet again, this time by supporting the anti-alcohol movements and the formation of the Prohibition Party in 1869.

While Rockefeller avoided alcohol, his chief concern was not to uphold morality in the U.S. The prohibition served his agenda by creating burdensome restrictions on ethanol producers, and as ethanol became more costly, its attraction as an alternate fuel ceased.

Also, as detailed in my previous article about Clair Patterson's fight to eliminate leaded gasoline, once the high compression engine was invented, car manufacturers started running into performance problems. General Motors diagnosed the problem, realizing that the problem originated with the fuel. General Motors tried about 15,000 different combinations of elements to find a solution to the engine knocking.

Lead for Life

the history of leaded gasoline - an excerpt

 

Adding benzene from coal to gasoline was found to work. Ditto for adding grain alcohol. Adding 10 percent alcohol to gasoline raised the quality of the fuel, causing less knocking in the engine. It also had other benefits, including clean combustion, which eliminated soot emissions, and increased horsepower without engine knocking.

But as research continued, General Motors determined that adding lead to the gasoline produced "an ideal anti-knock fuel" — ideal mostly because manufacturing the lead additive, tetraethyl lead, would allow them to make the greatest profits. Were they to add alcohol to the gasoline, the oil industry stood to lose a large amount of petroleum sales, anywhere from 10 to 20 percent, depending on how much alcohol was added.

By adding lead, the oil industry had a product it could again control in its entirety. So Standard Oil partnered with General Motors, creating a joint corporation known as Ethyl Corporation. Leaded gasoline became the norm, and over the next 80 years, countless people were sickened and harmed by this neurotoxic fuel additive, thrust upon the people for no other reason than it created the greatest profits.

Big Oil Secretly Buys Up and Dismantles Public Transportation System

In 1936, Standard Oil and General Motors also took part in the reformation of public transportation. Only 10 percent of Americans owned a car, and most city dwellers relied on electric trolley networks. By replacing the electric streetcars with gasoline-guzzling buses, the oil industry secured an even greater foothold within the U.S. economy. As detailed in Corbett's report:

"The cartel had been careful to hide their involvement in National City Lines, but it was revealed to the public in 1946 by ... Edwin J. Quinby ... He uncovered the oiligarchs' stock ownership of National City Lines and its subsidiaries and detailed how they had step by step bought up and destroyed the public transportation lines in Baltimore, Los Angeles, St. Louis and other major urban centres...

[I]n 1947 National City Lines was indicted for conspiring to form a transportation monopoly and conspiring to monopolize sales of buses and supplies. In 1949, GM, Firestone, Standard Oil of California and their officers and corporate associates were convicted on the second count of conspiracy.

The punishment for buying up and dismantling America's public transportation infrastructure? A $5,000 fine. H. C. Grossman, who had been the director of Pacific City Lines when it oversaw the scrapping of LA's $100 million Pacific Electric system, was fined exactly $1."

Next came the undermining of the railway system. In 1953, General Motor President Charles Wilson was appointed Secretary of Defense, and Wilson, along with Francis DuPont, Chief Administrator of Federal Highways, set into motion the largest public works project in U.S. history with the creation of the interstate highway system.

As a result, railway travel declined by 84 percent between 1945 and 1964, while private car ownership soared, and along with it, gasoline sales, which rose 300 percent in that same time frame. Similar social engineering feats took place in Europe, further securing the future of the oil business as a primary force to be reckoned with.

The report also goes into the details behind the gas shortages that sent the U.S. into a financial tailspin in the early 1970s, revealing how the secretive Bilderberg Group, created by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands in 1954, successfully created a new financial system based on the petrodollar — a system that granted the oiligarchs unprecedented control over the economy.

The Rockefeller Transformation

In his day, John D. Rockefeller was a despised man. This all changed when he hired Ivy Ledbetter Lee, who essentially invented the public relations industry as we now know it.  John D. was filmed handing out dimes to the poor, and was publicly portrayed as a kind and warm-hearted man. While hokey by today's standards, such simple stunts worked. Yet, Rockefeller needed to go even further to truly gain the public's trust.

As Corbett notes:

"In order to win the public over, he was going to have to give them what they wanted. And what they wanted wasn't difficult to understand: money. But just as his father, Devil Bill, had taught him to do in all his business dealings, Rockefeller made sure to get the better end of the bargain. He would 'donate' his great wealth to the creation of public institutions, but those institutions would be used to bend society to his will.

As every would-be ruler throughout history has realized, society has to be transformed from the ground up. Americans in the 19th century still prized education and intellectual pursuits ... with a remarkable 93 to 100 percent literacy rate.

Before the first compulsory schooling laws in Massachusetts in 1852, education was private and decentralized, and as a result ... a solid grounding in history and science was widespread. But a nation of individuals who could think for themselves was an anathema to the monopolists. The oiligarchs needed a mass of obedient workers..."

The Takeover of Education

John D. Rockefeller's first great act of charity was the establishment of the University of Chicago, followed later by a $180 million donation to the establishment of the General Education Board. But contrary to what you might think, these acts of generosity were not to further education, but to control and impoverish it.

Frederick Taylor Gates became a trusted ally, and in "The Country School of Tomorrow," Gates lays out Rockefeller's plan for the education of future Americans:

"In our dream, we have limitless resources, and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hand. The present educational conventions fade from our minds; and, unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or science.

We are not to raise up from among them authors, orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among them lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we now have ample supply."

The Effective Strategy That Eliminated Natural Medicine

Other oil-backed schemes to mold and reshape the American education system followed, including a scheme to alter the teaching of American history to promote a view of collectivism, as well as a program culminating in the transformation of the practice of medicine.

Naturopathic-based herbal medicine was the norm, and Rockefeller set out to shift the medical industry toward using oil-derived pharmaceuticals. To this end, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was established in 1901, headed up by Simon Flexner.

"His brother, Abraham, was an educator who was contracted by the Carnegie Foundation to write a report on the state of the American medical education system. His study, 'The Flexner Report,' along with the hundreds of millions of dollars that the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations were to shower on medical research in the coming years, resulted in a sweeping overhaul of the American medical system.
Naturopathic and homeopathic medicine, medical care focused on unpatentable, uncontrollable natural remedies and cures was now dismissed as quackery; only drug-based allopathic medicine requiring expensive medical procedures and lengthy hospital stays was to be taken seriously ...

The fortunes of Carnegie, Morgan and Rockefeller financed surgery, radiation and synthetic drugs. They were to become the economic foundations of the new medical economy ... The oiligarchy birthed entire medical industries from their own research centers and then sold their own products from their own petrochemical companies as the 'cure.'"

The Takeover of America's Financial System and the Creation of a Food Monopoly

The financial power of these oil industry giants is by now near-unfathomable, but the aim was to control the entire financial system. This was effectively accomplished with the creation of the Federal Reserve, established in 1913 following a secret meeting on Jekyll Island, during which the details were ironed out. Attendants at this meeting included John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s father-in-law, Senator Nelson Aldrich, and various banking representatives.

Later, in the 1950s, James Stillman Rockefeller, the grandson of John D.'s brother, became the head of National City Bank, while David Rockefeller, John D.'s grandson, took over Chase Manhattan Bank. Still, they were not satisfied.

"Springboarding from success to success as they consolidated monopolies across every field of human activity, the oiligarchs' ambitions became even larger. This time, their goal was to consolidate control over the very food supply of the world itself, and once again they would use philanthropy as the cover for their business takeover," Corbett explains.

The Rockefeller Foundation funded the Green Revolution that led to the introduction of petroleum-based agricultural chemicals, which quickly transformed agriculture, both in the U.S. and abroad. President Lyndon Johnson's "Food for Peace" program actually mandated the use of petroleum-dependent technologies and chemicals by aid recipients, and countries that could not afford it were granted loans from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
The "Gene Revolution" was next, and as noted by Corbett:

"The players involved in this 'Gene Revolution' are almost identical to the players in the Green Revolution, with I.G. Farben offshoots Bayer CropScience and BASF Plant Science mingling with traditional oiligarch associate companies like Dow AgroScience, DuPont Biotechnology and, of course, Monsanto, all funded by the Rockefeller Foundation ..."

The Final End Game: Monopolizing Life

In his usual style, Corbett manages to squeeze in an incredible amount of information in as compact a timeframe as is humanly possible, and I highly recommend taking the time to watch the video in full. What I've included here is but a summary overview of the many details he brings forth in this fascinating report.

Those who are ignorant of history are bound to repeat it, and if this story tells us anything, it is that unless we realize what has been done, we'll be deceived again and again, because the oil oligarchy's end game is yet to be realized — if we let them. As Corbett notes in closing:

"The takeover of education, of medicine, of the monetary system, of the food supply itself, showed that the aim was much greater than a mere oil monopoly: it was the quest to monopolize all aspects of life, to erect the perfect system of control over every aspect of society, every sector from which any threat of competition to their power could emerge ... But the oiligarchs are not done yet.
Their next project, launched in the late 20th century, is almost too ambitious to be comprehended ... It is about the monopolization of life itself. They have spent decades preparing the path for this takeover and marshaled their mind-boggling resources in service of the task. And the vast majority of the world's population, still playing the shell game that the oiligarchs perfected and abandoned long ago, are about to fall right into their hands yet again."

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/01/16/how-oil-industry-conquered-world.aspx?e_cid=20160116Z1_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20160116Z1&et_cid=DM94889&et_rid=1316923868

GOVERNMENTS NEED TO PREPARE FOR CATASTROPHES

PAPER SAYS GOVERNMENTS NEED TO PREPARE FOR CATASTROPHES LIKE YELLOWSTONE ERUPTION

 

 The rim of the Yellowstone caldera encircles the inner portion of Yellowstone Natioinal Park

It’s long been known that if the Yellowstone supervolcano were to erupt at full force the loss of life would be substantial and the effects on the world’s climate would be disastrous — water sources would be fouled, crops would fail, many people would die directly and indirectly.

In an international report that has recently captured headlines, scientists have attempted to quantify the threat of such catastrophes while also urging governments worldwide to collaborate on investment in scientific research to better prepare the world in hopes of lessening the impacts of such a calamity.

“I think the paper and its contents are very valuable,” said Bob Smith, a University of Utah researcher who has long studied the geodynamics of Yellowstone, even if certain websites tend to sensationalize the findings to the “point of annoyance.”

The warnings and recommendations are contained in “Extreme Geohazards: Reducing the Disaster Risk and Increasing Resilience.” The report was supported by the European Science Foundation and included an international cast of authors with expertise in such diverse fields as economics, health and earth sciences.

“It’s one of the only reports I’ve ever seen that takes a geologic perspective in thinking about hazards,” said Jake Lowenstern, a research geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey and scientist-in-charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.

Natural disasters

In recent decades, the United States has suffered its share of natural disasters. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 caused an estimated $40 billion in damage and killed almost 2,000 people, and it was narrowly confined.

Volcanic eruptions, on the other hand, especially ones the size of the Yellowstone supervolcano’s last explosion, would far exceed anything modern humans have experienced, the researchers contend.

The worst, most recent volcanic eruption took place in 1815 in Tambora, Indonesia, leading to the deaths of 92,000 people. That eruption was given a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 7, one being the least explosive. Mount St. Helens in Washington state was rated VEI 5 and killed 57 people.

In contrast, the latest Yellowstone volcanic eruption was a VEI 8 and occurred about 640,000 years ago. Another VEI 8 occurred about 74,000 years ago in Toba, Indonesia, and killed an estimated 60 percent of the population. If such an eruption were to occur now with a much more populated Earth, the authors write ominously, it “could return humanity to a pre-civilisation state.  It’s sobering,” Lowenstern said.

Smith said the probability of Yellowstone’s volcano erupting in any year is extremely low, less than .00014 percent.  “Since the last large eruptions, there have been 50 to 70 smaller eruptions contained primarily in the Yellowstone caldera,” he said, and more than a dozen small hydrothermal eruptions occur every year. “You look at that and ask: Are we truly overdue, or has the volcanism pattern changed?”

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Preparedness

The paper’s authors contend that more attention should be focused on forecasting and preparing for such a cataclysmic event. Smith agreed.  “Most of the big volcanoes around the world are not monitored,” he said.

Yellowstone’s volcano is an exception. Smith has been at the forefront of installing better monitoring tools around the volcano, including 35 seismographs, 45 GPS stations to detect horizontal and vertical displacement and even five seismographs installed in the ground. The monitoring has been largely funded by the National Science Foundation and U.S. Geological Survey.

“We have a big network in Yellowstone,” Smith said. “We’ve worked really hard on redundancy” to get information out of Yellowstone should certain communication means, like phone lines, fail.

Measured in lives

The importance of monitoring volcanoes can be measured in lives, the international researchers claim. Although exact figures are debated, the 1918-1919 Spanish flu has been credited with the deaths of between 21 million and 50 million people. A VEI 8 eruption has the potential to dwarf that death toll, the authors write. “ … volcanic eruption could easily kill (through the many indirect effects, in particular, food scarcity) a higher percentage of the global population than the Spanish Flu if it occurred without any global preparation effort.”

“The problem with geologic events is that they happen so rarely that people don’t really think about an earthquake or volcanic feature, so they brush it off,” Smith said. “When one hits, it’s an enormous stress on a population. If you don’t prepare and mitigate, that’s when you get the greatest loss of human life.”

Smith said humans around the world are reliant on their governments and politicians to prepare for extreme disasters because, although scientists may not be able to forecast when an earthquake or volcanic explosion will occur, there is a wealth of knowledge about the effects of such catastrophes.

“It should be a wake-up call to those who read it and can make decisions,” Lowenstern said. “It’s a very credible job that they’ve done looking long-term at global-scale risks."

The paper also points out that because of the increase in the world’s population and its many interconnections through global trade, large disasters can have effects far beyond a specific region.

“Preparedness has gotten more imperative because the Earth has gotten a hell of a lot smaller,” Smith said.

http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/paper-says-governments-need-to-prepare-for-catastrophes-like-yellowstone/article_07aa9e27-ea30-59f9-82f1-24f32181ff23.html